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Overhauling China’s Financial Stability Regulation: Policy Riddles and Regulatory Dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2017

Emilios AVGOULEAS  and
Duoqi XU
Emilios AVGOULEAS
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
Duoqi XU
Affiliation:
KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai
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Abstract

China faces a number of important financial-stability risks. A persistent feature of the Chinese banking sector is the rapid formation of non-performing loans (NPLs) during each business cycle. Moreover, lending restrictions and interest-rate caps (“financial repression”) have, in part, given rise to an ever-expanding shadow-banking sector. The article highlights five cardinal sins within the Chinese financial system: (1) bad lending practices by the regulated sector, (2) lax governance, (3) a shadow-banking system that is dominated by short-term claims with no liquidity backstop, (4) stark lack of transparency in the shadow sector, and (5) very high levels of interconnectedness between the shadow and the regulated sector. The article suggests that some of these problems will be alleviated through a regulatory big bang that would abolish the current silo approach to financial regulation streamlining financial stability and conduct/consumer-protection supervision. Furthermore, we recommend the introduction of a binding and all-encompassing leverage ratio that will require banks to hold much higher capital buffers as a means to boost bank resilience, reduce NPLs, and battle interconnectedness with the shadow sector.

Keywords

financial-stability regulationfinancial repressionnon-performing loansshadow-banking systemleverage ratio
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Law and Finance in (South)East Asia
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Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , May 2017 , pp. 1 - 57
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© Cambridge University Press and KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

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Chair in International Banking Law and Finance, University of Edinburgh; Member of the Stakeholder Group, European Banking Authority. Correspondence to Professor Emilios Avgouleas, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, DHT George Square, EH 8, Edinburgh, UK. E-mail address: emilios.avgouleas@ed.ac.uk.

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Professor of Financial and Tax Law, KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiaotong University, PhD; Director of the Research Centre of Internet Finance Legal Innovation and Director of the Research Centre of Tax Law. The authors would like to thank Matias Aranguiz and Mingyu Ge for their superb editorial assistance.

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